01UndatedMany love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
03UndatedIn the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
04UndatedIn spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
05UndatedIn an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
06UndatedModern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
07UndatedPhrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
08UndatedIn unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
09UndatedEverything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
10UndatedTo be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
11UndatedSwimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
12UndatedThe individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
13UndatedBeing a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
14UndatedTo demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
15UndatedLiberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
16UndatedThe particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
20UndatedThe greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
21UndatedViolence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
22UndatedThe anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
23UndatedThe philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.Nicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
24UndatedThe curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummetsNicolás Gómez Dávila / quote ↗
